Welcome to Natural MD Radio, your place to hear the whole truth on health and medicine for women and children and get the tools you need to take back your health naturally starting now. I'm Dr. Aviva Rong. Should you detoxify before getting pregnant?

As a midwife, functional medicine doctor specializing in integrative women's health, I get

this question a lot from women who come to see me and also who meet me at conferences.

And it's a really important question.

And I have to tell you, if I had been asked this question

10 years ago, I might have actually said no your body knows exactly what to do

trust your body but a lot happened in the last 10 years that's giving me pause to

reconsider and actually work with quite a number of

women to detoxify before they do get pregnant. Let me explain why. But before I do, I just want to remind you if you love what this

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So let's talk about detoxing and pregnancy and whether it's important,

whether it's important for you, and if you're going to do it, how to do it safely.

So this generation of kids, our kids, or your kids, mine are a little bit older, but my kids kids

have been called Generation RX.

And they're called Generation RX because they are taking so many medications for so many

medical problems.

It's really crazy.

One of the most famous pediatric toxicology physicians who studies the effects of environmental toxins on kids.

He's the one who kind of discovered the problems with lead in kids and how lead in our environment was causing kids in the US to have lower IQs.

So this was in the late in the 1970s he's the one who really got the lead out so to to speak, of our environment as much as possible for our kids.

Philip Landrigan, he calls what our kids are going through now, the new pediatric morbidity.

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